Kingen v. State

The appellant was indicted, together with her husband Harrison Kingen, for the murder of Samuel' Derry by stabbing him with knives. The accused parties • were tried separately. The appellant, on trial by a jury, was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for the term of two years.

It is shown by a bill of exceptions that a jury had been selected and agreed upon by the parties, and had been sworn to try the cause, and had been permitted to retire under the-charge of a sworn bailiff, no evidence having been introduced, and the case not having been stated to…